Textual Studies @ UW

An interdisciplinary program in the comparative, cross-historical study of material texts in manuscript, print, and digital environments.

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Today on the TXTDS blog, we’re highlighting UW Textual Studies student, Karlee Harris’ Capstone research contributing to a data-analytical study of the Seattle Public Library’s checkout data: https://t.co/XuzktFNebY

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We’re celebrating the career of Sandra Kroupa, Book Arts and Rare Books Curator for UW Special Collections, who was recently named Librarian Emerita. In this post, we look back at Sandra’s distinguished career spanning 57 years of service to the UW: https://t.co/7P03E1gMAK

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Mark your calendars! The call for applications for the Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI) has been posted! Apply by March 3rd: https://t.co/ikjgihTGjP

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Today, we’re highlighting TXTDS 401 - Text Technologies: Reading and Re-imagining the Fairy Tale, a new iteration of this core course in the Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor on offer for SPR26!
🔗 View TXTDS 401 in MyPlan: https://t.co/xVTZT0PbfK

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Today on the TXTDS blog, Marin Tisdale, UW Textual Studies minor and Art History major, talks about her recent internship with the Seattle Art Museum.
🔗 https://t.co/Rrjy4GltQN
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TXTDS and iSchool faculty, Melanie Walsh, along with a team of UW students recently published a fascinating data-analytical study of the Seattle Public Library’s checkout data.
Explore the team’s data here: https://t.co/knEiU7cJBV
And read more here: https://t.co/oGg8vBDrf2

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Course drop! 🚨 Swipe to see our Graduate Certificate Course offerings for Spring Quarter 2026. These classes count toward the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies.
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Click here to find out more about these and other upcoming courses: https://t.co/mckjg7CjIa

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Course drop! 🚨 Swipe to see our Elective Course offerings for Spring Quarter 2026. These classes count toward the Electives requirement in the Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor.
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Click here to find out more about upcoming courses: https://t.co/mckjg7CjIa

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Course drop! 🚨 Swipe to see our Core Course offerings for Spring Quarter 2026. These classes count toward the Core Course requirement in the Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor.
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Click here to find out more about upcoming courses: https://t.co/mckjg7CjIa

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Today on the TXTDS blog, Blue Jordan walks us through the creation of their Capstone project, a digital edition of “Comets” by Sir Robert Ball from the The Strand Magazine held in UW Special Collections.

Read more: https://t.co/4YGqEmY9uV

The Project: https://t.co/ocyhJRzCZS

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Congratulations to Textual Studies co-director, Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky, who received an honorable mention for the MLA’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies for, Reading Typographically: Immersed in Print in Early Modern France!

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Today on the TXTDS blog, Riley Hull, UW Textual Studies alum ‘25, talks about their Capstone research project on collection development in English Studies at the UW Libraries.
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🔗 https://t.co/x56s8fYm9H

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Celebrate the end of fall quarter at UW Textual Studies’ Printmaking Social: Holiday Edition, this Wednesday, Dec. 3, from 3–5pm in DEN 159.
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Join us for an afternoon of letterpress card-making, linocut, and wood type printing as we say goodbye to another great academic quarter!

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Today on the TXTDS blog, Aries Chen, UW Textual Studies alum ‘25 and current UW iSchool MLIS student, talks about their Capstone research project exploring citation methods in French texts of the early modern period.

Read here: https://t.co/NBkNvBk3Mt

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Mark your calendars and head to the Open Scholarship Commons at Suzzallo Library next Tuesday, November 18th from 2-5pm for a special workshop session led by DXArts and TXTDS faculty, Laura Luna Castillo!
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🔗 https://t.co/BtK0F9ntnC

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Today on the TXTDS blog, we’re taking a look at Emily Backstrom’s Capstone project, which experimented with text encoding using XML and the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines to transform video game scripts from Deltarune into machine readable text.
🔗 https://t.co/Yi0OwuKNpu

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Course drop! 🚨 These WIN26 TXTDS classes count toward the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies. The certificate is designed to serve an interdisciplinary community of grad students whose work crosses periods, materials, and geographies: https://t.co/mckjg7CjIa

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Course drop! 🚨 These WIN26 TXTDS classes count toward the Electives requirement in the Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor. From medieval and early modern literature to data science to the history of photography, view these and more here: https://t.co/mckjg7CjIa

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Course drop! 🚨 These WIN26 TXTDS classes count toward the Core Course requirement in the Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Minor. From data-driven arts to Middle Eastern graphic novels, view these and more here: https://t.co/mckjg7CjIa

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This week on the TXTDS blog, we’re congratulating TXTDS alums, Aries Chen, Jules Lockett, Steven Haker, Emily Backstrom, Malika Brown, and Riley Hull on their acceptances to Master’s programs in Library and Information Sciences and the History of the Book!
https://t.co/ybesUS4DDn